Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They intend to carry on their protest indefinitely . ’ |
| 2 | He says that they want to take away his living . |
| 3 | He says that they want to take away his living . |
| 4 | A number of the 150 people who have contacted Age Concern England about the debt they face took up their scheme before this date and will not be able to obtain compensation even if they are granted an award through arbitration or private legal action . |
| 5 | How graceful they look bending over their embroidery frames , consulting over the arrangement of a group , or the colour of a flower . |
| 6 | Certainly I do n't think that the DTI 's ministers and officials will find their jobs any less interesting when they begin to take up our cause in this way . |
| 7 | It may be that their main requisite at this stage is to find protection whilst they continue to live off their food reserves remaining from the food capsule . |
| 8 | Always tell them how well they 're doing when they try to do up their buttons ( even if they ca n't quite complete the task ) , put away a toy or own up when they have done something wrong . |
| 9 | Many grandparents in these situations speak of their sense of powerlessness as well as their confusion as they try to sort out their sadness and loss and learn to accept their new families . |
| 10 | They keep falling off my fork . ’ |
| 11 | If they do travel abroad their main destinations are Spain and Italy . |
| 12 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 13 | They love bumping their young offspring up and down on their knees and they love showing off their ‘ achievement ’ to their friends . |
| 14 | Ads warning : Companies which advertise misleading or non-existent job vacancies using premium rate telephone lines face a total ban if they fail to clean up their act , watchdog the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Telephone Standards , warns today . |
| 15 | Whereas the Mondays were once upfront and in your face , now they 've polished up their act , they 've sacrificed the power punch of their old menace . |
| 16 | ‘ As soon as they 've patched up my plane . |
| 17 | They 've trained in addition to the once a month or even twice a month , they 've trained whenever their duties allowed . |
| 18 | We want them to volunteer to pay compensation to the offen Er to the victim , because that way we know that they genuinely have concern over what they 've done and they 've faced up their responsibilities . |
| 19 | Already they 've scaled up their fluid star-burst psychedelia into something that sounds more suited to outdoor festivals than stuffed solid mini-venues . |
| 20 | They 've thrown away their frilly skirts and put on some more grown-up clothes . |
| 21 | They 've picked up their own vibes . |
| 22 | That 's why sprinters when they cross the line very often collapse many of them , because they 've used up their oxygen so much so that there 's not got enough and their brain switches off momentarily and they collapse . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm so glad they 've taken away my chains , ’ I told him . |
| 24 | Their children have little prospect of finding any housing in their village when they wish to set up their own homes . |
| 25 | But now , in the main , companies are leaner and fitter ; they have pared down their operations in order to survive . |
| 26 | Their secret is stamina rather than speed and when they have worn down their prey the kill is clumsy but efficient . |
| 27 | In many cases they have given up their spare time to pursue a personal dream of making life better for those around them . |
| 28 | Whatever their reasons , they have given up their own free time to come to your classes . |
| 29 | First , national monitoring of local government women 's initiatives , supplemented by brief case studies , will discover what women 's committees intend to do , what they have done and what political and financial resources they have to carry out their plans . |
| 30 | they have hung on my shoulder . |